This is a list of the colonial governors of Louisiana, from the founding of the first settlement by the French in 1699 to the territory's acquisition by the United States in 1803.
The French and Spanish governors administered a territory which was much larger than the modern U.S. state of Louisiana, comprising Louisiana (New France) and Louisiana (New Spain), respectively. As part of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800), Spain retroceded Louisiana to the French Republic, but Spain continued to administer the territory until 1803 when French officials arrived shortly before the sale of Louisiana to the United States.
At the same time, there are parts of present-day Louisiana which were historically administered by other European powers, with the most prominent example being the area known as the Florida Parishes, north of Lake Pontchartrain and east of the Mississippi River. This territory was originally part of French Louisiana, but it was administered by the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783, following the British victory in the French and Indian War, and then by Spain from 1783 until the West Florida Revolt in 1810.
List
editFrench Louisiana (1682–1762)
edit| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
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Sauvolle (1671–1701) |
1699 | 1701 (Died in office) |
| 2 | 
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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
1701 | 1713 |
| 3 | 
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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658–1730) |
1713 | 1716 |
| 4 |
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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
1716 | 1717 |
| 5 |
|
Jean-Michel de Lepinay (c. 1665–1721) |
1717 | 1718 |
| 6 |
|
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
1718 | 1724 |
| 7 |
|
Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand (1675–1736) |
1724 | 1726 |
| 8 | 
|
Étienne Perier (1686–1766) |
1726 | 1733 |
| 9 |
|
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
1733 | 1743 |
| 10 | 
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Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial (1698–1778) |
1743 | 1753 |
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Louis Billouart (1704–1770) |
1753 | 1763 |
| 12 | 
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Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie (1726–1765) |
1763 | 1765 (Died in office) |
| 13 | 
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Charles Philippe Aubry (c. 1720–1770) |
1765 | 1768 |
Spanish Louisiana (1762–1803)
edit| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
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Antonio de Ulloa (1716–1795) |
1766 | 1768 |
| 2 |
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Charles Philippe Aubry (c. 1720–1770) |
1768 | 1769 |
| 3 | 
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Alejandro O'Reilly (1722–1794) |
1769 | 1769 |
| 4 | 
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Luis de Unzaga (1721–1790) |
1770 | 1777 |
| 5 | 
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Bernardo de Gálvez (1746–1786) |
1777 | 1785 |
| 6 | 
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Esteban Rodríguez Miró (1744–1795) |
1785 | 1791 |
| 7 | .jpg)
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Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet (1748–1807) |
1791 | 1797 |
| 8 | 
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Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (1747–1799) |
1797 | 1799 |
| 9 | 
|
Francisco Bouligny (1736–1800) |
1799 | 1799 |
| 10 | 
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Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill (1751–1820) |
1799 | 1801 |
| — |
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Nicolás María Vidal (Acting Civil Governor) (1739–1806) |
1799 | 1801 |
| 11 |
|
Juan Manuel de Salcedo (1743–c. 1810) |
1801 | 1803 |
French Republic Louisiana (1803–1803)
edit| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
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Pierre Clément de Laussat[a] (1756–1835) |
1803 | 1803 |
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See also
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References
edit- Cowan, Walter Greaves; McGuire, Jack B., eds. (2010). Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-320-4.
- Dawson III, Joseph G. (1990). The Louisiana Governors: From Iberville to Edwards. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1527-5.